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Twitter Offline Due To DDoS
The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet. It's been down for several hours, no doubt wreaking havoc on the latest hawtness in social networking. Won't someone please think of the tweeters? Word is that both Facebook & LiveJournal have been having problems this AM as well.
If any story deserves that tag, its this.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
a slashdot effect will certainly help in resolving the troubles.
... whenever a text is transmitted, variation occurs. This is because human beings are careless, fallible, and occasiona
This is what happens when you anger the googles.
I've got to re-tweet this!!
... oh wait
The blogosphere is buzzing about this. The amount of crap being spouted related to this incident is now causing blogal warming.
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
What is twitter? Is that some new web site or something?
So THAT's what Conficker's for.
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
...the nation's IQ spontaneously rose 23 points this morning. Scientists are investigating this puzzling phenomenon but have yet to discover the cause.
To the haters: You can't win. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine
...what will Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore do?
Wow, that segway was about as awkward as some kind of two-parallel-wheeled auto-balancing minute-muscle-movement-controlled vehicle. Of some sort.
Finally. now everyone can get back to work.
If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it.
And now you've /.ed them just for fun :)
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Say about Defcon what you want. Yes, it lost its edge. Yes, it got watered down. Yes, it's not the top notch hacker con it used to be. Yes, it's been turned into the BH stepchild-still-in-puberty.
But even there nobody is yet so low to consider Twitter a worthy target.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Nothing of value was lost -- social networking is about as important as celebrity gossip.
Cue James Earl Jones:
I find your lack of faith disturbing. The ramifications of social networking have yet to be truly felt in the outer colonies. Communication is key to productivity and morale of the people. The Emperor is a fool to take it away and not realize it for the tool that it is. It is also quite helpful to keep tabs on the new T-17. Hot little number there. If the rebel alliance is to be deterred we must know where they are, what they're doing at all times, what they're currently dining on, when they've returned from the bathroom, and how they're wearing their hair today. Twitter is the key.
Do not fail me again.
This could be an expensive attack. There are estimates that just a few hours without social networking could lead to billions of dollars in increased productivity.
Imagine if Slashdot went down. Spam would be wiped out in a day, Linux audio would be bug free in a week, and next month we'd see the release of GNU Hurd.
twwweeeeeeeeeee...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...eeeeee...eet!
...office productivity is up 50 percent today.
Stephen Fry has been hospitalised and is queueing messages from his PatientLine text terminal in readiness for the site returning. "Twatter ++ungood sweeties zomg I do believe I'm feeling a little faint."
The source of the attack is unknown, but is hypothesised to be either the Russian Mafia, the Iranian security forces, the Chinese government or Alan Davies recoiling from his latest humiliation on QI.
News agencies around the world condemned the attack, which hits at the root of their online news-gathering processes, and have had to resort to following the Wikipedia "Recent Changes" feed. "Apparently BUSH IS GAY LOLOLOL," says the current CNN front page headline. "Who knew?"
A new site, "Grunter," has attempted to take up the slack. Users of "Grunter" are freed from the wordy excesses of Twitter's 140-character limit and can post one of twelve pre-programmed onomatopoeic noises, such as "mmrph," "huh," "grah" or "tubgirl."
Popular teenage angst poetry blogging and fan fiction site LiveJournal was affected by a similar attack at about the same time, but that attack was considered "just as well, really."
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
then again, how many slashdotters actually RTFA?
What is that A in there for? Is there some part of this whole slashdot thing that I'm missing?
Thank for reading to the sig. You may stop reading now. It is safe. There is no more content. Why are you still reading?
...lost! Oh the humanity.
Perhaps this is just me but...probably what you had for lunch is pretty low on most peoples "care-dar". When I get together with my friends...know how often we talk about lunch...almost never. Know how may SMSs I've received about peoples lunch? or IMs or emails for that matter? Those figures hang pretty close to zero too. But Twitter? From my modest sampling of tweets it seems like it's pretty close to mandatory to shoutout about your ingestibles. I can think of some reasons for why this particular subject comes up but the real revelation for tweeters (or twits or whatever you call yourselves) should be that MOST OF YOU ARE REACHING PRETTY DAMN FAR TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT!!
OTOH, Mod parent up would be a good name for a rock band.
I do not have a signature
No it wouldn't.
I am a twitter engineer and I thought that too, but when I looked at the HDS-4 switch network it was placed in promiscuous mode. All I did w
He's posting from over 2000 years in the past, and you're quibbling over a single hour?
On top of that,
makes me want to break pencils and kick puppies.